Beyoncé performs during the first stop on her “Formation” World Tour at Marlins Park in Miami, Florida.

Miss Lady Bey has launched her military attack upon the world, which will soon be entirely under her sway. When the history books are written about this moment, they will note that her weapons were hair, glitter, thigh-highs, and a lack of interest in pants or skirts. Let’s examine things a little closer, shall we? Or as close as her no-doubt Amazonian security team will allow.

In all seriousness, there probably will be plenty of scholarly discussions and think pieces centering around her costume choices here. What’s interesting is how she’s working a set of themes in her costumes and how they tend to be a lot of the usual female pop star tropes, but filtered through a rigid – and Bey-specific – uniform. In other words, she’s making every female pop star image trope uniquely her own – by turning all of them into bodysuits.